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Opinion: 5 Big Challenges Facing the New Congress
By not in system - AOL NewsMembers of the 112th Congress take their seats today, bringing a new Republican majority to the House and a reduced Democratic majority to the Senate. The legislators, new and old, face a daunting set of political and policy problems, from working with each other to addressing the troubled economy. Here are five of the biggest challenges that journalists and pundits have picked out for the new Congress. From the Atlantic Wire 1) Education Reform: "No Child Left Behind is due to be reauthorized this year," The Washington Post's Shailagh Murray writes, "and presents the type ...
Freshman Republican Says Senate Shouldn't Filibuster Judicial Nominees
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyFreshman Republican Mike Lee, elected in Utah with support from the tea party movement, says the Senate should do away with filibusters against judicial nominees, scrapping a stalling tactic when it is used in confirmation debates. Sen.-elect Lee told a radio interviewer, "I think we can make a strong argument that the filibuster ought not apply with respect to judicial nominees," according to the liberal website Thinkprogress.org and the Washington Post. "Perhaps out of this discussion will come a rule clarifying that point. If so, I'll be happy." Democrats were not happy in 2005 when ...
Sen. Bernie Sanders Talks for 8 Hours to Protest Tax-Cut Deal
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyVermont Sen. Bernie Sanders embarked on a marathon speech on the Senate floor Friday in protest of the tax-cut proposal President Obama struck with Republican leaders this week. Sanders is an independent, but he caucuses with the Democrats and is known as one of the most liberal members of the upper chamber. Hours after Obama announced his compromise package to extend the Bush tax cuts Monday night, Sanders warned that he would "do whatever I can" to stop the legislation from passing the Senate, including mounting a filibuster of the bill. The agreement that Obama announced Monday night ...
Democrats and Republicans: Quit That Cryin' or I'll Give You Somethin' to Cry About
By Robert and Donna Trussell - Politics DailyFollow the Trussell cartoons on Twitter at ChaosTheoryPD ...
Senate Clears Hurdle for Small-Business Measure
By Joseph Schuman - AOL News(Sept. 14) -- Senate Democrats cracked a months-long GOP filibuster of a bill to provide new loans and tax breaks for small businesses after two Republicans broke with their party to back a measure President Barack Obama has promoted as one of his top economic priorities. Republican Sens. George Voinovich of Ohio and George LeMieux of Florida today joined a unanimous Democratic caucus in the 61-37 vote to close debate on the Small Business Jobs Act. The bill would create a $30 billion fund that community banks can access for loans to small businesses and provides some $12 billion in tax ...
The Reid-McConnell Senate: Is It Really Such a Mess?
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyThe Senate is in one of those phases that make normal people wonder what on earth is going on in Washington, and possibly even what possessed the Founding Fathers who created the upper chamber. Writers are lamenting its decline, senators are laying plans for change, and some House members make no effort to hide their scorn. The leader of the abandon-hope forces is New Yorker writer George Packer. In a piece headlined "The Empty Chamber," he says the Senate has managed only two lasting achievements in 18 months and now is "slipping back into stagnant waters." Washington Post columnist David ...
Reform Advocate Speaks Up Against 'Silent Filibuster'
By Byron Tau - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (July 28) -- Talk about life imitating art: If Sen. Frank Lautenberg has his way, the Senate will operate a little more like it does in the movies. Brandishing an iconic poster of Jimmy Stewart in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," the New Jersey Democrat spoke briefly before the Senate Rules and Administration Committee today to call for overhauling the filibuster -- the famed Senate delaying tactic that requires 60 votes to cut off debate and move any legislation to a vote. "Few realize that the movie version of the filibuster bears little resemblance to what's going on in the ...
Congress Extends Unemployment Handouts
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Senate Approves Jobless Benefits for Millions
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (July 21) -- State unemployment agencies are gearing up to resume sending unemployment payments to millions of people as Congress moves to ship President Barack Obama a measure to restore lapsed benefits. After months of increasingly bitter stalemate, the Senate passed the measure Wednesday by a 59-39 vote. Obama is poised to sign the measure into law after a final House vote on Thursday. It's a welcome relief to 2½ million people who been out of work for six months or more have seen their benefits lapse. Under best-case scenarios, unemployed people who have been denied jobless ...
GOP Filibuster on Unemployment Benefits Defeated on Fourth Attempt
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyAfter three failed attempts, the Senate voted 60 to 40 to end a Republican filibuster Tuesday over a bill to extend unemployment benefits for the long-term unemployed through the end of November. Roughly 2.5 million Americans have been without benefits since the latest extension expired in June. The Senate will take a final vote on the bill tomorrow. It will then go to the House for a a vote and on to president's desk for signature. The months-long impasse was broken by newly minted Democratic Sen. Carte Goodwin (D-W.Va.), who was sworn in to succeed the late Sen. Robert Byrd minutes before ...
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